Category: mental health

  • Beyond the Busy Streets

    Beyond the Busy Streets

    Beach or mountains? Which do you prefer? Why? When I was seven years old, I was sent to learn drawing. I never did become much of an artist but that period of time when my imagination was overflowing, drawing was an outlet to let it all out. I would draw everywhere, drawing pad, rough notebook,…

  • Why do we eat?

    Why do we eat?

    What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals? Eating is one of those things which we all must do since our very survival and well-being depends on it. While some workaholics may claim they don’t really have any proper time for eating and those cups of black coffee are sufficient, I say they are in…

  • Sounds of locals

    Sounds of locals

    Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car). Hello everyone good morning and now it is 9:13 am in the morning and I am starting to write today’s blog. Today it is moderate weather here in India and in the city where we stay. Different altitude have different climate…

  • Wooden Toys

    Wooden Toys

    If you could meet a historical figure, who would it be and why? The sliding glass door of the cabinet opened and a hand made its way inside. Arush picked out the old framed photo of his grandmother holding him as an infant. Such are the remnants of the days past, they always have a…

  • How did the Smog take over?

    How did the Smog take over?

    Nirek sat working on his computers. His eyes moved over the parameters of the display area of the monitor and his hands coordinated on the keyboard and the mouse. As Nirek picked up the bottle of water to take a sip, he looked out the window. ‘The sunlight has been blocked again today,’ thought Nirek…

  • Favourite Times

    Favourite Times

    What’s your favorite month of the year? Why? Daksh reached for the dark grey suitcase of dimensions 55 x 38 x 23 from under the double bed of his bedroom. It was the last of the two bags and suitcases packed and kept there. Daksh’s wife Kadambi’s eyes had caught sight of the disappearing tail…

  • Safe space

    Safe space

    You know many times what we fail as a human being is creating a safe space . A safe space means to create a space where one can vent out without feeling judged. You know we all have been in situations where we want to say a lot of things.. to someone whom we can…

  • Faces and Phases

    Faces and Phases

    What’s the first impression you want to give people? Mr Bakshi is the government job holder in his family. A decent salary with decent middle class livelihood. Mr Bakshi has a small family. His wife is also a job holder in the corporate landscape and has 2 children – Saloni and Bhuban. Everyday during the…

  • Facade of Truth

    Facade of Truth

    Pallabh sat in the rearmost seat of a moderately occupied bus. He had his eyes closed. “Did you take the ticket?” Pallabh slowly opened his eyes and pulled out a hastily folded ticket from the chest pocket and showed it to the conductor. The conductor nodded his head and went ahead. Pallabh put the ticket…

  • Silent Assumptions

    Silent Assumptions

    Mr Lugun stood at the main gate of the apartment building. He looked at the festive lights decorated around the gate, blinking in rhythm. A confused security guard inched closer to Mr Lugun till it was clear what had caught Mr Lugun’s attention. Mr Lugun noticed the presence of the security guard who by this…

  • Hair Story

    Hair Story

    HairHi, myself Binni and today I wanted to share the hair story! Sounding weird right? Every organ, every element of our body has some connection with our mind and hair plays one of the most beautiful memories. So let us remember our hair and its memories. And according to me I have got the genetics…

  • Through the veil

    Through the veil

    The video showed moving ahead in a long passage of an abandoned factory. The person who carried the camera ran through the empty passageway. The passageway was dimly lit with the help of the light from the streetlights which managed to come in through the old and broken glasses of the windows on the right.…

  • Stolen

    Stolen

    Ritvik opened the door of the car and sat in the front passenger’s seat. The car moved and the police station disappeared from view. Ritvik glances at a visibly frustrated Yaksh driving the car. ‘Would it be the right time to talk to him?’ thought Ritvik as he tried to read the atmosphere and then…

  • Sensitive

    Sensitive

    Today we will meet you with Jivan. A 23 year old boy who just completed masters and is waiting for results to arrive. The sensitive soul thrives for the beauty of Nature, the insects, the birds, the rays of the sun and the pathways of the village attracts him the most. Jivan the simplistic soul…

  • Unfiltered

    Unfiltered

    The world was following its usual routine, the Sun was shining the Summer, the birds were making the sky more meaningful, the other animals were livening the forests, the trees stood spreading their shade for those who needed it, and there were us humans involved in an awful lot of things with everyone getting up…

  • Glimpse of the Morning

    Glimpse of the Morning

    What was your favorite subject in school? Dinner time was over and Mrs Baliga along with her nieces Maya and Purna sat in a room softly lit by the warm yellow light of the lamp. Purna sat playing her violin, the fingers of her left hand moved over the fingerboard of the violin while her…

  • Away from the False Glow

    Away from the False Glow

    How do you manage screen time for yourself? I stood in a crowded metro train, looking out the wide rectangular window with rounded corners and fixed glass at nothing in particular, it was dark apart from the area lit by the lights of the tunnel placed a certain distance between each other. My eyes appreciated…

  • The Mistaken Truth

    The Mistaken Truth

    The lights of the drawing room were off as the room was lit with the natural light which entered from outside through the open door of the balcony. The speed of the fan was slow as the cold was creeping in to signal the winter following. Aryash sat placing the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle…

  • Shelter of Memories

    Shelter of Memories

    There was an unusual silence in Mr Rathwa’s household. Unusual because silence was never a part of this household, at least as long as Mr Rathwa was alive. Mr Rathwa was a man of talkative nature and everyone liked to hear him. If people passed from the corridor of Mr Rathwa’s apartment at the right…

  • Inquisitivness

    Inquisitivness

    The human world has come a long way from a lifestyle of existence similar to otherorganisms to the present day where mankind is progressing leaps and bounds every year in more fields and aspects than what could have been even imagined earlier. At the core of each phase of discovery, development and innovation among various…